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Monday, April 9, 2018

The Left Kills an American President Twice - Daniel Greenfield

by Daniel Greenfield

The Left is not fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, income inequality or war. It is fighting us.

First, Obama renamed Mt. McKinley. Now the Arcata City Council in
California wants to tear down a statue of President William McKinley.

“Put a rope around its neck and pull it down,” a leftist activist shouted.

There were similar protests last year in Honolulu at McKinley High
School, a push to remove a McKinley statue in Massachusetts, and a
McKinley statue was repeatedly vandalized in San Francisco.

If there’s any Republican president who would appear an unlikely target for the left, it’s McKinley.

Unlike the Confederate generals previously targeted by the Taliban
left, McKinley began the Civil War as a Union private and ended it as a
major. At Antietam, he delivered food to his men while under fire.

Suffragists and African-Americans campaigned for him. Susan B. Anthony
had celebrated her birthday at the White House. He had vowed to secure
the rights of “every citizen, black or white, rich or poor.”

But the left is coming for President McKinley again.

On September 6, 1901, a radical leftist murdered the President of the United States.

Like Lee Harvey Oswald, Leon Czolgosz was a shiftless radical. His
target was a popular president who was at the Pan-American Exposition in
Buffalo to deliver a speech defending his plan to defend and expand the
American economy. Like Trump, McKinley wanted to use tariffs as
leverage for mutual trade agreements with other countries that would
benefit American workers and industries.

His mission was, “gaining for America a supremacy in the markets of the world.”

"The good work will go on. It cannot be stopped," President McKinley had declared
in his final speech. "These buildings will disappear," he said,
referring to the Temple of Music in which he was to be assassinated,
"this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from sight,
but their influence will remain to, 'make it live beyond its short
living, with praises and Thanksgiving.'"

It was the age of
anarchist terror. But McKinley was innocent of the leftist terror
threat. "Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me,” he told his
secretary, dismissing concerns for his safety.

As the
Star-Spangled Banner began to play, the president started shaking hands
with fairgoers. Czolgosz approached with a gun hidden in a
handkerchief. As President McKinley reached to shake his hand, the
leftist radical shot him twice. The crowd grabbed the terrorist while
the wounded president urged them to be gentle with him. “Don’t hurt
him,” he said, referring to him as "some poor misguided fellow."

”My wife, be careful how you tell her—oh be careful,” he pleaded.

The First Lady had been ill for some time and had nearly died during
their travels. And the president feared that hearing about his
assassination would do her in.

That year, Ida McKinley said
that few would know, “what it is like to have a wife sick, complaining,
always an invalid for twenty-five years … and yet never a word of
unkindness has ever passed his lips. He is just the same tender,
thoughtful, kind gentleman I knew when first he came and sought my
hand.”

Eight days later he was dead.

Czolgosz credited a speech by leftist activist Emma Goldman with inspiring his crime. In a pamphlet
written after the assassination, she denounced McKinley as a capitalist
and praised his killer for having “wounded government in its most vital
spot”. She concluded her screed by writing that her “heart goes out to
him in deep sympathy, and to all the victims of a system of inequality,
and the many who will die the forerunners of a better, nobler, grander
life.” Terrorists like Czolgosz who would die for the cause.

After President McKinley’s murder, statues of the murdered Republican
went up around the country: towns, schools, parks and other locations
were named or renamed in his memory.

But the left wasn’t
satisfied with murdering President McKinley once. It’s trying to kill
him all over again. The radical hatred that drove Czolgosz to kill a
good man is still howling in the minds of the left.

McKinley’s death may be ancient history to most, but the left remembers its comrades and enemies.

Under Bill Clinton, the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument to Czolgosz's fellow anarchist terrorists was designated
a National Historic Landmark, while the statue memorializing the police
officers they murdered had already been banished to obscurity after
being vandalized by the Weathermen.

In approving the “Martyrs’ Monument”, the National Park Service
described socialist terrorists like August Spies who had preached the
violent overthrow of the United States and its replacement by a
Socialist tyranny as "martyrs" and “dissenters" fighting for an
"eight-hour workday".

There is a direct continuity between the
leftist terrorists who murdered 7 police officers in 1886 Chicago and
earned a National Historic Landmark designation from the Clintons for
their act, Leon Czolgosz’s murder of President McKinley, and the Wall
Street Bombing of 1920 which killed 38 people and wounded another 143,
and all the later acts of leftist terror from the Weathermen to the
present day.

The Weathermen understood that when they bombed a
statue memorializing the murdered officers in 1969. Obama understood
that when he renamed McKinley toward the end of his regime.

The Arcata City Council understands it today.

The left doesn’t pull down statues because they memorialize racist
men. Marx, Che, Margaret Sangers and the rest of their heroes could give
the most bigoted Klansman a run for his sheets.

Nobody’s pulling down their statues or tossing out their t-shirts.

The left began pulling down Confederate statues because they were the
easiest. Few people really wanted to defend them. And the most vocal
defenders were the racists who played into their hands.

And then came Columbus, Washington and Jefferson.

Now McKinley.

Why pull down a statue of President McKinley? For the same reason that Czolgosz shot him.

“No one would wish to hurt me,” President McKinley had said. But he
didn’t understand the enemy. Personal decency, kindness and compassion
were not defenses against leftist violence.

They were an opening and an incitement to violence.

In his confession, Czolgosz wrote that, “I read books on socialism and met a great many Socialists.”

"In the meetings I attended I heard people talk about the duty they
were under to educate the people against the president form of
government and they should all they could to change the government."

That was also Lee Harvey Oswald’s story. He read books on socialism and looked for someone to kill.

The left is not fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, income inequality
or war. It is fighting us. It is not tearing down statues because they
memorialize racists, but because they memorialize Americans.

It isn’t enough for them to have murdered President McKinley. They have
to destroy his memory. The Communists in the Soviet Union didn’t just
kill people; they erased them from photos and books. They made them
non-persons. Their goal was to achieve a total control of the present
through the past.

When Czolgosz spoke of replacing a
government, it was a total replacement. He murdered the man, his
comrades today are trying to eliminate his memory so that there will
never have been a McKinley.

Do it enough times, tear down
enough statues, rewrite enough books, teach enough lies and there will
have never been an America.

The cult of the left worships
history as the tea leaves forecasting an inevitable future. It is
convinced that if it can rewrite history, it will write the future. It
does this, as everything else, through lies, special pleading,
hysterical outrage, self-righteous threats and finally the inevitable
violence.

“No one would wish to hurt me,” President McKinley
had said. Czolgosz, Obama and the Arcata City Council disagree. They
want to hurt him. And all the rest of us.

And if they get their way, they will bully us, enslave us, kill us and finally erase us from history.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269812/left-kills-american-president-twice-daniel-greenfield Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.